20111218 The Birth of Christ

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Pastor Matt McFarland

Open your Bible and follow along.

The following verses are referenced:

Genesis 22:6-8 (Prophesy of Jesus’ sacrifice)  6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.  7And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?  8And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

Micah 5:2  (place of birth) 2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

Matthew 2:1-6  (Wise Men/magi)  1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,  2Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.  3When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.  4And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.  5And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,  6And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

While Caesar was ruling, God was ‘over’ ruling!

Philippians 2:5-8 (made himself of no reputation)  5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:  8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Micah 4:8 (tower of the flock/sacrificial lamb)  8And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

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